15 Facts About Wu Weishan

Wu Weishan is Curator of the National Art Museum of China, Vice-Chairman of the China Artists Association, President of the Chinese Academy of Sculpture and Director of the Academy of Fine Arts at Nanjing University.

Wu Weishan has been actively promoting Chinese art on the world stage and has made great contribution to the international cultural exchange of China.

Wu Weishan was born in Dongtai, Jiangsu, China in January 1962.

Wu Weishan's father Wu Yaoxian was a teacher, good at art and literature.

Wu Weishan holds several positions including Curator of the National Art Museum of China, Vice-Chairman of the China Artists Association, the president of the China Academy of Sculpture and a professorship at Nanjing University, an honorary doctor of philosophy at Inje University, South Korea.

Wu Weishan is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, the Society of Portrait Sculptors, UK and the Steering Committee of China City Sculpture.

Wu Weishan is a standing member of the China Sculpture Institute, professor of cultural lectures at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Wu Weishan was selected as Nanjing's first Top 10 Cultural Notables in 2006.

Wu Weishan has long been tapping into and drawing on the rich traditional Chinese culture and is committed to expressing the spirit of Chinese culture through his sculptures.

Wu Weishan has engaged in sculpture creation for more than twenty years, and has created more than 500 sculptures including historical and cultural notables and ordinary people, home and abroad.

Wu Weishan's works are full of Chinese wisdom and traits.

Wu Weishan is the first person who puts forward the "Theory of Impressionistic Sculpture" and "Eight Styles of Chinese Sculpture" and published several treatises and books to elaborate his theory.

Wu Weishan's achievements have been reported in two episodes of "Extraordinary People of the East" by China Central Television.

Wu Weishan's works are collected by the National Art Museum of China, Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands, Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Fourth University of Paris etc.

In Nanjing Museum, there is a permanent "Gallery of Wu Weishan's sculptures of Cultural Notables", and there is a "Sculpture Studio of Professor Wu Weishan" at Macao Polytechnic Institute.